skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are always going to be pros and cons. That's why solutions like managed databases are reality. From an expert perspective it seems like there's more to lose but from the perspective of a company with employee turn over, possible data loss, security etc. the benefits start to far outweigh the costs.

This reasoning can mostly be applied here. If you want to learn about and pull the LLM apart. Perhaps fine-tune and tinker then 100% go ahead running locally. You however won't be able to scale this up easily for a consumer base and the electricity use and heat output starts to become a problem.

At some point it's more beneficial to pay the provider for inference, this includes upkeep, latest models, faster generation, stability, hosting etc.

Pros and cons! Choice is important and Meta is doing the right thing by the AI community and tech community in general by being realistic with these programs. The ecosystem is giving back by being able to access these high quality models.
You'd think the coffee signalers would care about climate change as climate change is what is going to extinct the coffee they are defending against efforts to protect the climate (that would save their coffee) that simply do not exist.
The subtitle is really weird:

> Punishing Google for being the best would be “unprecedented,” lawyer argued.

How does deleting evidence make you “the best”?

Also, obstruction of justice charges aren’t exactly unprecedented. We need obstruction of justice to be harsher than the crime itself to discourage blatant hiding of evidence
I will give up on android and move to iPhone. Google cannot build products whatsoever.
Downvotes help people skip the noise and focus on the signal. Ain’t nothing wrong with that.
I have been meaning for a while now to post about Realpage. I keep seeing how they are causing the market to go higher by collusion.
The common thing all these companies seem to do (realpage, zillow, etc) is list the rents "that are what other landlords have successfully charged" but there seems to be a shortage of sites which tell potential landlords "what the average renter can afford".

In my town for example rents are $1500-3000 for the houses the average renter would rent...but the "average renter" in my area only makes ~$35k/year. This means to live comfortably and have growth they cannot pay more than $1k/mo.

Even before Realpage there was the whole "my golf buddy says I am not charging enough...so rent needs to go up". This type of thinking allows "normally ethical" people to act in ways that they may not if they had all the info.

If there was a site that said "if you charge more than X you are causing poverty in the community" or "at this average rent the workforce will start to leave the area".

I am currently in a town with massive commercial vacancies (commercial units and corporate apartments). Everywhere you go there are for lease signs on long empty (and very nice) buildings. Most businesses in town have now hiring signs (1500 unfilled jobs in the county)...but for some reason unless you are in the declining class it seems everyone has blinders on.

What I am asking for is a call to action. I think a site like this can be setup in a way that is factual (using locally done studies from Universities for example). The world needs more "ethical capitalisim"...those involved can make the choice on their own to not hurt others without having to create new laws and restrictions (those only help the corporate landlord). I have faith that the good in people will prevail if we simply stop making it seem like raising rents is just "what you do" even if you don't need to.

The 50-100% increase in the most expensive thing most people pay for in their lives can do nothing but drive inflation and push out the workforce. The hopelessness amongst those who "didn't make the cut" is getting bad...you can see it in the eyes of the people.

Hackernews...you can make a difference. It is your choice...we can continue making apps/companies that hurt society...or maybe we can make one that "might" help.
That isn't real data. Anyone can write anything on VAERS. There is no verification. People write crazy stuff like the vaccine turned them into the hulk.

But lets be real, you almost certainly already know that. So you very likely fall into the category of people who intentionally misrepresent the data so you can pretend that vaccines are a bad thing.
Isn't that all language is? An appeal to what others think you mean? This ofc is why people like to push definitions in different directions. I think you're saying, "Christian should mean XYZ," while I'm pointing out most people don't hold your meaning. If you want everyone to adopt your definition, you need to give a compelling reason. However, I've heard so many other people who call themselves Christian claim that all the other so-called Christians are not really Christian, that I don't really trust any particular Christian's definition. It's easier to just say, "Christian means someone who claims to be Christian".
They will just have to request donations in the same way Wikipedia does.
You can do that on llm.sxwl.ai
Shoot me an email at z@sxwl.ai for instructions, the web site is pretty outdated, the main UI is through restful API (which we don't have time to write doc yet)
Fiat proxied through USDC - a stablecoin offered by [Circle](https://www.circle.com/en/usdc).
The title summarizes the key facts of the article without adding editorial.
I've often thought about the idea of auto hash finding based on my experiences developing good hash functions^0

Cool to see this! I think it would be cool to hook it up with SMHasher3^1 (a much improved, and faster variant of the venerable hash test suite developed by Frank J. T. Wojcik) to automatically evaluate its output. You could use a subset of tests and fail fast for speed.

It would also be cool to expand it to 64 and 128 bit hashes (tho obviously the search space is larger).

Somewhat related I created some NodeJS code to measure avalanche under multiplication for 64-bit primes in order to select the values for Rain.

[Rain]: https://github.com/dosyago/rain

[SMHasher3]: https://gitlab.com/fwojcik/smhasher3
"Unions are bad... except for the upper classes for the sole purpose of exploiting everyone else."

The french already have an invention for this kind of activity.
The infinitives are so very, very deeply and unnecessarily split.
I love how any criticism of capitalism automatically invites the “but things sucked more at a particular place in a particular period” argument.

I grew up in a capitalist country. Being poor doesn’t give you access to things just the same.
He died in my hometown.

I have met his brother Burt a few times at local events when he was around more. After looking at the pics I realized that was the guy I kept seeing around town that "looked like Burt Rutan" but wasn't him. Very likely I have met Dick as well at events but did not know who he was.

Sad to see...but what a life lived.
While most people think it's cool and some think it's scary, drone delivery is ultimately something that people (that is: companies with money) don't need.

Turns out, using drones to deliver is also not that competitive either. Delivery vans are very cost-efficient, and for food delivery / on-demand delivery, drones are not able to carry most orders. So it's not even the regulatory pains that make this difficult, which are unbearable in their own right.

It was a lot of fun to work on and we would have definitely stuck with it if there was any interest. There was none, so we had to admit that to ourselves.

This is a hard pivot, but it's been very stimulating to work on.
FWIW, it would be unusual to have a practitioner refer to any of those things as a form of medicine, alternative or otherwise. I'm sure you could find examples of them doing so by scouring around enough, but it's not the norm.

I'm not familiar with the wikipedia articles, but they may be being maintained by people with a chip on their shoulder and a lack of real-world exposure. That happens often. Some people get really weird about unfamiliar things and the feel duty-bound to write critically about them from a shallow and biased perspective.

In any case, rolfing is essentially just a specific form of (very) deep tissue massage and the other two are roughly equivalent practices in body awareness and paying attention to how one moves. They're common in performance studies (acting, dance, etc) but have lost the attention of the broader public over the last few decades and so you won't find them as easily as you do (say) yoga studios now.

All three are, ultimately, soothing experiences and generally provide immediate relief of acute tension and pain, but that's no more a claim of "medicine" than it would be to suggest someone might help to breathe deeply, lay in a dark room for while, or take any other kind of massage (as the OP already suggested they do).
AM covers a larger area, and is more robust in areas with obstructions (e.g. mountains).
Tumbrils?
> Nationalize (rental) housing or make it so no corporation can own housing

Right now, only "luxury" housing developers are building new housing in high demand areas, so this is a recipe for curbing new development.

> Co-ops where renters are actually owners for large scale buildings.

Co-ops are cheaper monetarily, but you instead "pay" with you're inconvenience or conformity, which sometimes can include your skin color. Good luck proving that though.

> More single family housing.

That works, but there isn't any room to build any more in the most expensive housing markets

> Riots

Are also a great way to discourage new housing development and destroy the existing supply
Syd-oci: new OCI Container Runtime
What is better at this point? Duck duck go? Bing?

I pay for Kagi and it is better, but good luck getting Joe Random to pay for search.

Bing is better iff you use their AI tools, but giving high quality AI tools has got to be wildly unsustainable and so is not going to last.
Health insurers, who buy quite a lot of diabetes treatment, would much rather buy a cure. And they really don't want to pay for untreated diabetes. I've heard from an insurance CEO who wishes their plan could pay the electric bill for diabetes patients to ensure they don't lose power and refrigeration, which would make their insulin get too warm
Since Obama failed to renew the Smith-Mundt Act, American Citizens are now legally allowed to be subjected to U.S. Military Psyops. With that in mind, who are the oppressed now?
agreed, and you can draw clear lines of causality between ancient egyptian culture and current world culture, but the argument that egypt is uniquely important there seems weaker; the song dynasty seems more directly relevant, for example
nice for sure, but the horz scroll on my phone is too real :'(
> How does deleting evidence make you “the best”?

Google is full of really clever people who know how clever they are. The government should just give up now and Google should just win by default.
Bad for whom? Shareholders? Fuck shareholders, people need homes they can afford.

Ideas labeled as crazy or even violent have sprung up over history when people are pushed to breaking points.

Capitalism’s formula for infinite expansion will eventually break people.

How things like housing, healthcare, education, food are allowed to profit boggles my mind and is deplorable.
Their argument is that the Sherman act says no-doing-X. Then folks used computers to do X. This is just price fixing with extra steps.

https://www.ftc.gov/business-guidance/blog/2024/03/price-fix...
In the case of static linking, yes; they even share a common file format:

$ file /usr/lib64/libzstd.a vcpkg/installed/x64-windows*/lib/zstd.lib
/usr/lib64/libzstd.a: current ar archive
vcpkg/installed/x64-windows/lib/zstd.lib: current ar archive
vcpkg/installed/x64-windows-static/lib/zstd.lib: current ar archive

But note that one of these things is not like the others:

$ ar t vcpkg/installed/x64-windows/lib/zstd.lib | wc -l
189
$ ar t vcpkg/installed/x64-windows/lib/zstd.lib | uniq
zstd.dll

This is a Windows import library. It contains no code; linking to it results in an executable dynamically linked to zstd.dll (equivalent to GCC -lzstd without -static on a typical Linux system).

Note that the objdump command[1] from GNU binutils works on Windows .lib, .dll, and .exe files, if you want to know more about what they contain.

[1] https://sourceware.org/binutils/docs-2.42/binutils/objdump.h...
This is not a nice way to discover Dan Dennett died
> by which metric deploying the pre-packaged code (which takes seconds) into the cloud incurs a higher overhead compared to maintaining an in-house physical rack?

In terms of time? Probably not much. In terms of cost, we’ll it’s about scale.

I worked on a project for a big financial firm about 8 years ago, to implement a burst-capacity overflow to cloud strategy for their compute needs. About one week a month or even one week a quarter, they would need a few tens of thousands of extra cores.

At this scale the cloud providers were not really able to react or provision fast enough, and required us to reserve the capacity full time. In the end the costs for “buy and manage more racks” internally worked out cheaper.
Looks then like the safest way is nationalization. All of it.

* safest for the humans needing homes which is the only pov that should be considered.
Frank Stella has died
It's funny that they mention the wheel when the Inca didn't use the wheel, but used ropes and tension everywhere.
Poles have existed for a millennia, the first Polish state started in 966 AD as the Kingdom of Poland with the adoption of Western Christianity by the first Polish king. Maybe the idea of a nation hadn't been formed yet, but Poland had. The Polish word for Germany is "Niemec" or land of mutes, because they were unintelligible.

Why would anyone make that argument? Claiming Poznań as German reeks of irredentism. Germanic != German. Do germans still claim the cities of other Germanic countries and former lands like Austria, Czechia, Denmark, Norway, Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg and the Baltics as German?
Unfortunately, it doesn't look like Starlink is an option.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40246021
>A big reason for that is electromagnetic interference from electric motors—rather than risk customer complaints from poor-quality audio, some automakers decided to remove it.

Is this a hard problem to overcome?
Let’s start simple: what about, like, any modern electronic device that can be serviced and doesn’t stop working whenever the manufacturer decides from a distance? I would enjoy not having to buy a new phone every other year just so my apps keep fucking working.
Thanks for pointing out the preview — I just reread that and realised how well it applies to many evergreen topics here on HN.
I AM a user of mullvad, and I am extremely satisfied. I once mailed support with a payment question and added a small iptables question regarding a problem I had.

I got back a swift reply which solved the payment question, and a detailed iptables reply with pros and cons of different solutions.

In short: they are great.
The europeans seem to have succeeded in the middle state would you say? they have sacrificed some competitiveness for a more stable social framework. Not sure I agree that poverty is the default state no matter what.
calling other offices didn't involve sending a representative from a company to make sure that you were pricing in line with the algorithm and if you weren't pricing in line with the algorithm punishing you by excluding you from being able to use the services, it is cartel-like behavior. there is a severe problem with this.
I feel you're probably injecting that in there haha! :) I think they're just saying there's sacred spaces and others and there's different uses for each. Quiet contemplation versus parties: different :) hahahaha :)

This church rave in the 90s (I too miss that time a bit! Where I grew up it was 61 regent st haha! :)), was it an active church or a disused one, or don't know? Haha! :)
No, that distinction belongs solely to CB during good propagation.
Keep going. Almost there!
The issue is that housing should be a right and that precludes pricing housing based off of "how much of the average persons income can we consume with this".

The pricing for rental property should be based off of the cost of money to acquire the property + the cost of upkeep + some profit margin and rental companies should be competing to undercut each other on each of the three rather than just seeing how much __more__ they can price their units than their competition.
Is there a technical name for the two tiered legal system we have here? The average jack off is never going to get away with destroying evidence, yet the rich, and corporations are given deference all the time for all sorts of shit.
I doubt any of the employees of RealPage visit HN. I would guesstimate that probably about 1% of the total software developers worldwide actually visit here.
Didn't know if you were asking but Meson is used to build libvips from source. It took a couple days for me to get up to speed on it but wasn't difficult to understand.
https://mesonbuild.com/
https://www.libvips.org/install.html
As for imagemagick, I just couldn't get the speed I wanted out of it. This is partly due to the fact that the system I was building allows many different image types. I want to say gifs were almost always an issue but I'm reaching here. Been a bit for me as well.
Learn to use the phone when you want an undiscoverable chat, like everyone else on the planet.
Everyone wants someone to blame besides the things that actual cause the problem:

* Their NIMBY neighbors

* NIMBY zoning

If you actually show up to local hearings and city council meetings and the like, you see that the housing crisis is mostly local, even if, emotionally, it feels great to blame it on some far off entity: https://bendyimby.com/2024/04/16/the-hearing-and-the-housing...

People who actually study this stuff back this up with numbers:

* https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2024/2/21-going-after-co...

* https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/01/housing-cr...
The allegation in the article is not that google destroyed internal chats, but rather had instructed staff to turn off the chat saving feature before having such chats. Just as inculpatory, but not the same thing:

"Google was accused of enacting a policy instructing employees to turn chat history off by default when discussing sensitive topics, including Google's revenue-sharing and mobile application distribution agreements. These agreements, the DOJ and state attorneys general argued, work to maintain Google's monopoly over search."

>Punishing Google for being the best would be “unprecedented,” lawyer argued.

the article doesn't seem to cover this subhead, but I'm guessing this is a reference not to failing to keep records of their anti-competitive practices, but to something along the lines of "google only seems like a monopoly because they're such a good competitor they wind up with all the customers"
Mission Patch GPT will design you a mission patch
"Simple" employment checks for casual reasons amount to spam. Most importantly you may put the candidate in a position of being known to be on the hunt for a job. That kind of shit gets people fired at some companies. I have had recruiters try to "verify" my employment but really they are trying to get in good with a manager who may soon have an opening, even if it screws you over. Sometimes management is very petty and will just fire you to make an example out of you for daring to have higher ambitions.

Also, I've seen records from my most recent background check, and one of the companies I worked at simply didn't answer questions, and hardly ever picked up the phone. Almost nobody at any company I worked at had a phone, so it all had to go through HR. And again, if each unemployed worker gets like a dozen interviews, this kind of frivolous checking will generate hundreds of pointless phone calls.

>Why waste ~6 hours of expensive senior engineer and hiring manager time doing rounds of interviews before doing a simple check on whether the resume is correct about employment place/title/duration?

I think it is rare for a faker to make it through to an interview, much less even pass the first 1 hour session. Failing the background check is rare. I think it's safe enough to start with the assumption that a resume is correct and work from there. You should be able to detect most fakes because they will be screwed up in obvious ways.
The question isn't did the landlords know that this AI would push rent up. The question is will they continue using it now that they know. And the answer had better be no.
A double standard. Sadly present in most communities since the dawn of humanity.
This is the actual trend. The percentage of Windows 10 machines is growing, Windows 11 isn't magically losing users to downgrades or people shifting to another platform.
he should visit old-age housing more often
Show HN: I made an AI coach that listens in your interviews and offers answers
You can also prepare by simulating online/phone interviews with real-time feedback and practice questions, including Leetcode and behavioral scenarios
You have to look at several factors here.

There's the nicotine factor, which means that vaping is just as harmful to the heart and brain as smoking in that regard.

There's the tar factor, where smoking is far, far worse than vaping due the hundreds of carcinogenic compounds that are left in your lungs from the tar.

There's the Carbon Monoxide factor which you get from the burning of combustible substances that occurs in smoking. I found that this had the most harmful effect on me. A day or two after I restarted smoking, I felt as though I had no energy and had to 'drag myself about'. On the other hand when I stopped smoking again, it took about a week or so for the lethargic effect to dissipate.

There's the synthetics factor. A lot of flavorings and other substances in vaping products are quite harmful too.

The bottom line is, as far I can tell:

If you are a smoker, either stop smoking completely or switch over to vaping if you can't kick the nicotine.

If you're a non-smoker, DO NOT START EITHER SMOKING OR VAPING. Particularly, DO NOT START TO SMOKE.

If you're a vaper, try to stop that as soon as possible.

Me? Oh, I had to stop smoking when I had a triple bypass.
This doesn't apply in places like Austin where people just build further out.

Rent is falling, but nowhere near as fast as it should be.

These kinds of "algorithms" that are effectively "outsourced collusion" are the reasons why.

Even worse, there is zero reason why these companies should exist except for "collusion as a service".

Rental property pricing isn't rocket science. Set an occupancy target percentage and then adjust the price up or down to reach that target. The rental prices would then be responsive to the market conditions with absolutely no collusion whatsoever.

But that won't do what the landlords want which is prevent the price from going down at all.
I wonder if some miniature chain shot, made with ~2-3mm split shot fishing weights clamped over 20-30cm of monofilament line, all in a smoothbore shell, would work to entangle drone propellors, and perhaps leave the drone in a reusable state.
Unfortunately, most of these companies have share-holders, and thus the directors of the company have a legal fiduciary duty to the shareholders: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_judgment_rule

If the directors intentionally forgo profit, they could be criminally liable, even if they do so with the intent of helping the community at the expense of the shareholders.

Capitalism is designed, legally designed, to not be ethical, unless "maximizing profit" is your ethical code.

Essentially, externalities, like destroying the environment and widening the wealth-gap, are capitalism working as designed.

As such, we need specific laws to protect communities and people, though right now "laws" seem rather unpopular in quite a few countries.